Family Friendly Teriyaki Chicken Meatballs

My kids aren't fussy eaters at all, but sometimes I like to make them a dish that I know they will love as a special treat. My family friendly teriyaki chicken meatballs recipe was just such a meal. The kids have been really good, they had to eat so many (accidentally) hot Indian dishes, when I was testing recipes for "An Indian ThermoKitchen" cookbook. Then I moved onto the Mexican cookbook. They started off loving the idea of nachos, tacos and burritos every night, but after a while, they just wanted a plate of plain old bangers and mash.

Chicken Teriyaki Meatballs

Julie Carlyle

This is a simple, family friendly recipe. Cooking the meatballs in the oven is a real time saver as you can make the sauce while the meatballs cook!

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Main Dish

Cuisine American, Australian, Japanese

Servings 40 small meatballs

Ingredients

  

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Chicken Meatballs

• 1 kg chicken mince
• 120 gm onion quartered
• 15 gm fresh ginger
• 15 gm garlic
• 225 gm canned pineapple reserve the liquid for the sauce
• 3 slices wholemeal bread
• 2 eggs
• ½ teaspoon salt

Teriyaki Sauce

• 1 clove garlic
• 100 gm soy sauce
• 50 gm cooking sake
• 100 gm mirin
• 60 gm brown sugar
• 80 gm reserved pineapple juice
• 1 ½ Tbs cornflour
• 2 green shallot finely sliced to garnish
• 1 teaspoon sesame seeds garnish

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 210 degrees Celsius.
• Prepare a large roasting tray by covering with baking paper.
• Place the onion, garlic and ginger in TM bowl. Chop 4 sec/Speed 9.
• Scrape down the bowl.
• Add the bread and drained pineapple to the garlic mixture. Chop 4 sec/Speed 9.
• Add egg, mince and salt to the ingredients in TM bowl. Combine roughly with the spatula. Knead /2 min.
• Remove the meatball mixture from the TM bowl and place into a large bowl.
• Form small meatballs from the mixture and place on the prepared tray. They will be sticky and wet, but they cook up beautifully.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until golden.

Teriyaki Sauce

• Place garlic in a clean TM bowl. Chop 3 sec/Speed 9.
• Scrape down the bowl.
• Add the soy sauce, sake, mirin and brown sugar to TM bowl. Heat 2 min/Varoma/Speed 2 (MC OUT)
• In the meantime, add the cornflour to the reserved pineapple juices and stir by hand until it's combined. 
• Add the cornflour liquid to the sauce in TM bowl. Cook 8 min/90/Speed 2 (MC OUT)

To Serve

• Place the meatballs in a serving dish.
• Pour the teriyaki sauce over the meatballs and garnish with shallots and sesame seeds.

Notes

Serve these meatballs with rice or as an appetiser with a toothpick in the top!

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So tonight I thought I would give them a dish I knew they would love. Teriyaki chicken balls... I actually got in trouble for calling them chicken balls. My daughter was horrified. She thought I may even name the recipe that on this website.

My son just giggled and said, "Do you know what that means mum?" I had to string him along for a while and ask him what the problem was, it's fun being a parent sometimes.

Anyway, these teriyaki chicken meatballs are super easy and got a big tick of approval from the kids. I decided to serve them in lettuce cups with rice. The kids thought it was a little like a Japanese version of "San choy bow."

You can pan fry the chicken meatballs if you like. I found it quicker and easier to just form all the balls at once and place them on a larger baking tray to cook in the oven while I made the sauce.

So don't forget to pin these delicious teriyaki chicken meatballs for later 🙂

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